Essays in Objectivist Thought

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Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces, written in the last decades of Rand’s life, are gathered in book form for the first time. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand’s longtime associate and literary executor. The work concludes with Peikoff’s epilogue, “My Thirty Years With Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir,” which answers the question “What was Ayn Rand really like?” Important reading for all thinking individuals, Rand’s later writings reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. This collection communicates not only Rand’s singular worldview, but also the penetrating cultural and political analysis to which it gives rise.

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The Voice of Reason – Essays in Objectivist Thought by Ayn Rand Edited and with Additional Essays by Leonard Peikoff

Introductionby Leonard PeikoffPart One: Philosophy1. Introducing Objectivism2. Review of Aristotle by John Herman Randall, Jr.3. To Young Scientists4. Who Is the Final Authority in Ethics?5. The Psychology of Psychologizing6. Altruism as Appeasement7. The Question of Scholarships8. Of Living Death9. Religion vs. America – by Leonard PeikoffPart Two: Culture10. The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age11. Our Cultural Value-Deprivation12. Global Balkanization13. How to Read (and Not to Write)14. The Lessons of Vietnam15. The Sanction of the Victims16. Through Your Most Grievous Fault17. Apollo 1118. Epitaph for a Culture19. Assault from the Ivory Tower: The Professors’ War Against America – by Leonard Peikoff20. The American School: Why Johnny Can’t Think – by Leonard PeikoffPart Three: Politics21. Representation Without Authorization22. To Dream the Noncommercial Dream23. Tax Credits for Education24. Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason25. The Pull Peddlers26. About a Woman President27. The Inverted Moral Priorities28. Hunger and Freedom29. How Not to Fight Against Socialized Medicine30. Medicine: The Death of a Profession – by Leonard Peikoff31. Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty – by Peter SchwartzEpilogue: My Thirty Years with Ayn Rand: An Intellectual Memoir – by Leonard Peikoff